Andre Smith

Extraordinary experience not least because of how prescient and highly relevant it is to the ongoing terror campaign by Russian forces against Ukraine, but also because of the exceptional production values, stellar performances and nail biting and hilarious scripting.

In 1982, the year after Das Boot was released, the horrors of war came to Lebanon. Out of that war came the second of my two 'best war movies ever made', 'Lebanon' by director Samuel Maoz. Das Boot and Lebanon both look at the condition of war and man from the inside of the experience outwards and both immerse the viewer, almost trapping us on the reality of being in a submarine or a tank. Both are thrilling and gripping and most of all powerful anti-war films.